Following is a description by Saadat Hassan Minto of a Hindu girl. They are some of the most attractive women in the world.
"Her white cotton sari, her association with the Congress and the fact that she worked in a hospital had all combined to soften that slight hardness one finds in Muslim girls. She was not beautiful, but she was very feminine. She had acquired that hard-to-describe quality so characteristic of Hindu girls - a mixture of humility, self-assurance and the urge to worship. In her, the beauty of ritualistic Muslim prayer and Hindu devotion to temple gods had been alchemized."
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"Her white cotton sari, her association with the Congress and the fact that she worked in a hospital had all combined to soften that slight hardness one finds in Muslim girls. She was not beautiful, but she was very feminine. She had acquired that hard-to-describe quality so characteristic of Hindu girls - a mixture of humility, self-assurance and the urge to worship. In her, the beauty of ritualistic Muslim prayer and Hindu devotion to temple gods had been alchemized."
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